Even though POSIX/XSI requires "strerror_r" to return an "int", some systems
(e.g. the GNU libc) return a "char *" _and_ ignore the second argument (user
provided buffer). The configure script now checks for that behavior using
AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R. rrd_strerror() in rrd_thread_safe.c has been updated to
(hopefully) handle all possible cases.
Previously, rrd_strerror() would have returned "strerror_r failed. sorry!" in
mostly any cases when using glibc, since "if (strerror_r())" had been used to
check for errors which evaluates to true if a (non-NULL) pointer was returned.
Now, we, at least, return the error number in case anything else fails.
Thanks to Alessandro Iurlano for reporting this issue after spotting it in
collectd <http://collectd.org>.
patch by Sebastian Harl
git-svn-id: svn://svn.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/trunk/program@1752
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